SynthesisSpinal cord2022
Efficacy of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation in people with pain after spinal cord injury: a meta-analysis.
Synthesis in Spinal cord, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Emerging regenerative strategies for spinal cord injury: exosome-derived mechanisms and therapeutic insights.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
- Comparing Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation Added to Thoracolumbosacral Orthosis with Thoracolumbosacral Orthosis Alone on Pain, Trunk Control, and Respiratory Function in Chronic Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Low intensity trans-spinal focused ultrasound reduces mechanical sensitivity and suppresses spinal microglia activation in rats with chronic constriction injury.Bioelectronic medicine · 2025Article
- Evaluation of acupuncture on pain intensity and sleep quality in patients with neuropathic pain following spinal cord injury.American journal of translational research · 2025Article
- Recent Trends in Physical Therapy Interventions and Neuromodulation Techniques to Improve Neurorehabilitation.CNS & neurological disorders drug targets · 2025Review
- Composition of the editorial staff of major spinal journals based on geo-economic background: A survey analysis.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Narrative review of current neuromodulation modalities for spinal cord injury.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
STUDY
designMeta-analysis.
objectivesThis study aimed to evaluate the effect of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation in people with pain after spinal cord injury by meta-analysis.
methodsReviewed PubMed, Embase, Cochrane library, as well as China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Wanfang, and Vip databases to search the randomized controlled trials of pain after spinal cord injury through transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation from the beginning of the library to March 2021, and analyze the literature with RevMan 5.3 software and the bias in the literature with STATA 12.0 software.
resultsThere are six randomized controlled trials in the study with 165 cases. 83 cases in the test group were given transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, and 82 cases in the control group used sham stimulation or other treatments. Meta-analysis results showed the experimental group's visual analog scale (MD = -1.52, 95%CI, -2.44 to -0.60, P = 0.001) and short-form McGill pain questionnaire scores (MD = -0.70, 95% CI, -1.03 to -0.25, P = 0.002) were lower than those of the control group.
conclusionsTranscutaneous electrical nerve stimulation has some clinical therapeutic effects on persons with pain after spinal cord injury, but due to the lack of literature, the sample size is not large, and clinical trials need to be further improved later.
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